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Chrstphr Grdn
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partner • photographer • writer • 2L @ BLS • night owl • he/him

summa: prop law, con, due process, equal protection • analytic juris, fregean & performative semantics • cognition, episteme, ontology; parmenides, plato, aristotle
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stations

📷 pentax kx 50mm f/1.8
🎞️ ultramax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
A series of ascending yellow-white stones each marked with a roman numeral and picture depicting the various stations of the cross, an empty field beyond under a blue sky. A woman in a black coat walks a up a yellow-white stone grotto depicting the stations of the cross. The dark wall behind a catholic grotto near cemetery tombstones. An green painted wood arch with a gold cross and sign reading, Our Lady of Pompeii Cemetery, behind in a concrete path leading down between rows of tombstones.
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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New Jersey is a place

📷 pentax kx 50mm f/1.8
🎞️ ultramax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
A dilapidated brick shed with a faded white door in shadow casts a shade across brown grass, rusted metal from farm equipment in the background. A collapsed shed next to two standing sheds in a brown field at dusk. A white shed in front of a red barn near tall trees in a brown grass field, an American flag lifted in the wind. A blacktop road with faded double yellow line stretches in the horizon paralleled by standing power line poles connected by wire.
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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reason to shoot in color

📷 olympus om-2 50mm f/1.8
🎞️ ultramax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
Orange and yellow leaves on a tree lit up bright by the sun among a few green leaves left. Another shot of orange and yellow leaves bright from the sun on tree limbs among a few green leaves remaining.
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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experimenting with dusk

📷 olympus om-2 zuiko 35mm f/2.8
🎞️ ultramax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
The dark shadowy corner of an apartment building barely touched by orange sunlight against an orange blue sky at dusk, a wire stretches off to the side to an area near a tree. The dark shadowy sides of apartment buildings seen against the orange sly at dusk, on window is illuminated orange from sunlight coming in from an opposite window inside.
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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rooftop views in color

📷 olympus om-2 zuiko 35mm f/2.8
🎞️ ultramax(?)

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
A metal rail extending across a rooftop towards a church across the street. The Brooklyn downtown skyline at dusk beyond leafless trees. The dark shadows of a street between houses in Brooklyn below the downtown skyline at dusk.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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rooftop views

📷 nikon s2 zeiss-opton 50 f/2
🎞️ tri-x

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
Black & white photo of the tops of a row of houses in Brooklyn, tall buildings and a church steeple in the background. Black & white photo of a plane high up in the overcast sky above a dark church steeple. Black & white photo of a helicopter hovering above rooftops in Brooklyn.
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Once again I am thinking about this paragraph from a review of John Proctor Is the Villain that came out several months ago:

(link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...)
Screenshot from NY Times article reads: Today, it's become almost conventional wisdom that #MeToo was a shameful episode of mass hysteria. The movement, wrote Kat Rosenfield in The Free Press, would likely be remembered as "a machine that wrecked the lives of men by labeling them sex offenders, without due process and often without even the most perfunctory concern for whether the allegations were true."
November 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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so many skeletons

📷 nikon s2 zeiss-opton 50 f/2
🎞️ tmax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
A skeleton standing on the brick sill of a brownstone holding a pumpkin basket. A skeleton emerging from a bush behind a concrete wall. Three skeletons in shirts sitting on the porch in front of a house.
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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more skeletons

📷 nikon s2 zeiss-opton 50 f/2
🎞️ tmax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
A skeleton sitting on a stoop by a front door. A skill and arm and leg bones sitting on a concrete wall. Skeletons hanging of the windowsill of an apartment building. A lone skeleton sitting on a windowsill waving.
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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and it was also the night that the skeletons came to life

📷 nikon s2 zeiss-opton 50 f/2
🎞️ tmax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
A skeleton standing tall against a black metal fence. A skeleton dressed as a pirate sitting in between tree branches. A skeleton sitting on a porch and another skeleton mermaid pinned to the door. Skeletons tangled in webs with spiders strewn across the front of a house.
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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The More You Know shooting star from NBC flying against a black starry sky.
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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📷 pentax kx 50mm f/1.4
🎞️ ultramax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
A long dark shadow extending over dead grass of a yard where the bases a brick building frame remains, a collapsed shed next to a garage, leafless trees behind Leafless trees in the dusk sun Orange leaves on the dead grass cast in bright orange sunlight at dusk
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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tres

📷 pentax kx smc 50mm f/1.4
🎞️ ultramax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
There pumpkins sitting singly lined up on the ascending steps of a brownstone with happy faces drawn on them
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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apologies for not posting photos lately, been writing an article for law review & have had no time for indecisive scroll of the backlog of film photos I have, but I turned in my first complete draft this week so

📷 olympus om-2
🎞️ zuiko 35mm f/2.8

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmRoll
#nyc
November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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the kids are alright

📷 olympus om-1
🎞️ zuiko ?

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #nyc #FilmRoll
A black and white photo of chalk writing on the sidewalk reading: Cuomo stole $100 million from MTA A black and white photo of chalk writing on a street corner sidewalk reading: Cuomo assaults women
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Sickos meme but it's the wonderful Mr. Rogers at the window
November 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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"no Nazi tattoos" is a pretty good line
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech Meme of a man standing in a crowd to speak.
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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broken records
Is This a Pigeon meme: Man is "MAGA." Butterfly is "Ignore what the law says" Quote reads: "Is this a new legal analysis?"
October 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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#FilmRoll

📷 olympus om2, zuiko 35mm f/2.8
🎞️ kodak ultramax

#35mm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #nyc
A plane tiny and high in the blue sky turning yellow at dusk above a red brick building and leafless tree.
September 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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D.W. I Can't Even Read meme where: D.W. is Chief Justice Roberts; the sign stopping him is the First Amendment; the caption reads, "That sign won't stop me because here the Congress never has to do anything."
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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In this moment I have the voice of Nathan Zuckerman stuck in my head 🤷🏻‍♂️
A fictional account of our surreality cribbed from the opening of Philip Roth's The Human Stain; it reads: 'It was the summer in America when the disingenuousness returned, when the hypocrisy didn't stop, when the mere indication of the virulent white nationalism of a recently slain rightwing provocateur, his mobilizing campaigns for targeted punishment, his personal association with a political administration, were somehow more offensive, more confounding, more actionable than the virulence or the provocations or the association, when that vaunted American virginity—civility—was brought forward, dusted off, brandished, rediscovered in America once again.'
September 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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side-by-side comparison of what home screen folders look like in dark mode in: no accessibility modifications, Increase Contrast, and Reduce Transparency
An image of an iOS 26 folder titled 'office' with Word, OneNote, and Excel apps inside. The folder is bright, the blurred apps on the home screen behind the folder are very pronounced, but also bright, and the folder has strong round glassy textured visual shading and color around the edges. An image of an iOS 26 folder titled 'office' with Word, OneNote, and Excel apps inside. The folder is darker, the blurred apps on the home screen behind the folder are darker, more blurred seemingly, and the folder has less glassy texture, but still has visual shading and a single, solid bright color around the edges. An image of an iOS 26 folder titled 'office' with Word, OneNote, and Excel apps inside. The folder is a single, solid dark color, there is almost no round glassy texture and edge shading, the edge is a single solid color that is subtle, but all background apps are no longer visible; it's a single color screen, here, given my background image maybe, a solid black.
September 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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You might not agree but I think I find Increase Contrast a little better for eyes—visual elements at the forefront of the screen are more defined & not completely brought forward with transparentless, hard edge segments as with Reduce Transparency
Screen capture of Display & Text page in Settings App on iPhone with iOS 26 installed (Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text) showing: Reduce Transparency is turned Off, Increase Contrast turned on.
September 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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I think you should tell readers if your example of "practicing politics the right way" is a white nationalist
Norman Rockwell's “Freedom of Speech” painting, 1943. Oil on canvas.
September 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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White stone statue of Socrates sitting, resting chin on hand, as depicted outside the Academy of Athens, Greece.
September 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM